Altered States of Academia

Tag: teaching

  • The Reception baseline assessment: a shameful data extraction process

    Mandy Pierlejewski, Guy Roberts-Holmes, Sara Hawley and Jennifer Holly In October last year, a few short weeks into the new school term, colleagues from University College London and Leeds Beckett University visited reception classes in two schools in England. This class is the final year of early childhood education which, in England, takes place in…

  • Lesson Planning with Generative AI. Cheating or resistance?

    Dr Mandy Pierlejewski In this blog post, I explore the idea that using generative AI to plan lessons is cheating. I compare artificial intelligence lesson planning with the use of government validated schemes such as Little Wandle, using Foucualt’s work on discipline to explore notions of lesson authorship. I suggest that the use of generative…